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How To Go Beyond The Body: An Introduction, Guy Dove

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Embodied cognition represents one of most important theoretical developments in contemporary cognitive science. Many cognitive processes appear to be influenced by body morphology, emotions, and sensorimotor systems. This perspective is supported by an ever increasing collection of empirical studies that fall into two broad classes: one consisting of experiments that implicate action, emotion, and perception systems in seemingly abstract cognitive tasks and the other consisting of experiments that demonstrate the contribution of bodily interaction with the external environment to the performance of such tasks.

Now that embodied cognition is fairly well established, the time seems right for assessing its further …

Time To Start Training: A Review Of Cognitive Research In Sport And Bridging The Gap From Academia To The Field, Patrick Belling, Paul Ward

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Research demonstrates the importance of perceptual-cognitive skills, such as pattern matching, anticipation, and decision making in numerous sports, including badminton [1], baseball [2], basketball [3], handball [4], rugby [5], soccer [6], squash [7], tennis [8], and volleyball [9]. While other factors may be important (e.g., visual search patterns), the accuracy and/or speed with which athletes anticipate their opponent's intentions and/or decide on an appropriate course of action, as assessed on representative tasks have been shown to be the best predictors of skilled performance in the field [10]. Moreover, several studies indicate that these skills can be improved and transfer to …